Exoplanets

The diversity of planets orbiting other stars is far greater than what our own solar system has to offer. Our solar system basically consists of just two types of planet: the rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Other stars are orbited by hot Jupiters, ocean planets, icy planets or super-Earths. And that's no wonder: there are hundreds of billions and most probably many trillions of planets in our Milky Way alone, so they exist in almost every variation that is physically possible! Take a tour and visit some of the planets we have discovered in the last years.

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Kepler-186f: An Earth-Size Exoplan...

Hot Exoplanet

Icy Exoplanet

Kepler-10c - A Mega-Earth

GJ 1214 b

Kepler-22b

Hot Jupiter with Liquid Iron Rain

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